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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:26PM (#35544426)
Trustworthy when it is about non-local affairs, hopelessly biased when it is about local affairs. But Al Jazeera doesn't really pretend to be unbiased. Sometimes I'm positively surprised by the quality of their reporting. But them being Qatar based the amount of local news that would affect me is nil. They definitely offer an interesting perspective on the world as seen from the Arabic perspective, meanwhile I'm well aware of the fact that their English language news isn't always a 1:1 with their coverage of the same subject in languages that I can not read unaided.
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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by ghiculescu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:25PM (#35545346)
Replace "Al Jazeera" with "NPR" in your comment and you're also spot on.
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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by mardifoufs on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:51PM (#35548145)
Sorry, but aljazeera is on the level of RT. That you think otherwise just shows that you are more willing to ignore a biais when it is in your favor.

It has always been known in the arabic world that AJ is a complete puppet of the Qatari royal family (and even staffed by members of the royal family) and it can't be a coincidence that AJ's coverage is almost always a mirror image of qatari foreign policy talking points/positions. It is the equivalent of Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya, just with more international presence.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by jacquesm on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:18AM (#35551738)
Reading comprehension failure on your part, or we're in violent agreement which you somehow chose to voice as disagreement.
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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by pclmulqdq on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:56AM (#35555522)
The point is that Al Jazeera exhibits a lot of bias on international issues that are relevant to the Qataris, not just local news. This includes US foreign policy, environmental things, and global economic policy. They are basically RT (think about how RT covered george floyd), but generally allied with the west.
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